India Career Guide
Navigating finance aspirants to success
CFA Institute and CFA Society India play a key role in delivering life-long learning to CFA charterholders. Besides, they connect the community to a global network of investment professionals, including some of the most successful and respected names in the industry.
The Career Guide India is designed to help young professionals and members, identify the necessary building blocks to succeed in the investment management profession. The first edition of the India Career Guide published in 2016, highlighted the career journeys of 26 CFA charterholders from India. This edition takes a different approach. It delves into each segment of the investment industry, and it does so through the lens of a career aspirant. The knowledge and insights you will find here have been sourced from expert professionals – those with long and successful careers in that segment of the industry. It, therefore, represents the most pertinent information on careers you can hope to find, a body of work like no other in India.
As the global association of investment management professionals, CFA Institute believes that investment professionals have a duty to do the same to meet the needs of society. We designed this guide to highlight skills that our charterholders deemed important to their success. The skills are represented by icons that are explained in the following pages. We hope that this guide will provide you with the essential tools you need to take your career to the next level and help us build a better investment profession.